Combatting Corruption Around the World

Issue Date January 1996
Volume 7
Issue 1
Page Numbers 158-68
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About the Author

Peter Eigen is chairman of Transparency International, a Berlin-based research and advocacy body devoted to battling global corruption. He has worked for 25 years in economic development, mainly as a manager of programs in Africa and Latin America for the World Bank.

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